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Christopher Walken and Charlize Theron were announced as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man and Woman of the Year Thursday, joining Hollywood luminaries like Scarlett Johansson and Richard Gere, Katharine Hepburn and Mel Gibson—though not Paris Hilton.
In an announcement on the entertainment-news show Access Hollywood, a line of Pudding members, dressed in drag, ceremoniously passed a sheet with the names down to the society's co-producers, Joshua E. Lachter '09 and William M. Teslik '08, who then read them aloud.
Talisa B. Friedman ’10, spokeswoman for the Pudding, added that the Walken appealed to the theatrical society because, "we like people who will be fun and don’t take themselves too seriously."
Two members of the Hasty Pudding will roast each honoree, and while Lachter would not reveal the specific jabs he and others would take at the honorees, he noted that Walken’s long and diverse career will provide ample material.
Before the announcement that Theron would be the Woman of the Year, there had been a great deal of confusion about who would win the Pudding's coveted prize. Some news outlets had reported that Paris Hilton, a scandalous actress who is best known for an amateur sex video, would...